We are screening 3 films at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Arsenic and Old Lace, The Exorcist and The Wailing. Frank Capra’s Halloween comedy Arsenic and Old Lace stars Cary Grant as a man learns that his eccentric but sweet aunts have been seeking out lonely, elderly men, poisoning them, and burying them in the basement. Controversial from the day it opened in 1973, The Exorcist is now recognized as a defining classic of the genre.
This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of Dracula. The premise finds the infamous count journeying from his native Transylvania to England, where he takes a headfirst plunge into the London nightlife. The Wailing is a murder mystery, a zombie movie, a tale of demonic possession and a parable of bad parenting gone wrong. At times outrageously funny, it’s a moral and/or narrative puzzler that will keep you guessing days or weeks later.
Nov 4-11 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Gimme Danger is Jim Jarmusch’s affectionate tribute to Iggy Pop and The Stooges. Some performers flirted with danger. Iggy Pop embraced it. With abandon. Forming his band The Stooges in the […]
Werner Herzog leads viewers on a journey through a series of provocative conversations that reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works – from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relationships
Short films…Big Stars. Dick Van Dyke, Ed Asner, Peri Gilpin and Julia Louis-Dreyfus star in this program of award-winning short films.
Dec 2-10 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations ♦ Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex, controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary […]
Dec 2-4 ♦ Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 WHERE ARE FILMS SHOWN? ♦ WHERE CAN I PARK? Little Men is a little movie brimming with big truths about modern life…. Thirteen-year-old Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. When his grandfather dies, his family moves from Manhattan […]
Back by Popular Demand! Ove patrols his neighborhood, blithely disposing of wrongly parked bikes and chucking shoes at stray cats. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the house opposite Ove’s, she accidentally backs her car into Ove’s mailbox
The true story of Peter Dunning, who is the proud proprietor of Mile Hill Farm, which sits on 187 acres in Vermont. The land’s 38 harvests have seen the arrivals and departures of three wives and four children, leaving Peter with only animals and memories. The arrival of a film crew causes him to confront his history and his legacy, passing along hard-won agricultural wisdom even as he doubts the meaning of the work he is fated to perform until death
The legendary Sonia Braga stars as Clara, a 65 year old widow and retired music critic. Clara is the last resident of the Aquarius, an original two-story building, built in the 1940s, in the seaside Avenida Boa Viagem, Recife. All the neighboring apartments have already been acquired by a grasping property developer who wants to put up a skyscraper. Clara vows to stay.
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Kim Tae-ri) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Kim Min-hee) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Jo Jin-woong). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket
God exists, and He’s a jerk. He lives in a high-rise apartment in Brussels and never gets out of His pajamas. He takes sadistic delight in dreaming up new “laws” to torment humanity, and He’s a petty tyrant to his wife and ten year-old daughter, Ea. Like her brother before her, Ea has had enough of her Father’s abuse and when she spies the right opportunity, she hacks into His computer
Lost and Beautiful blends fable and reality. A mythical character named Pulcinella rescues a buffalo calf called Sarchiopone from the forsaken palace. Together, man and beast embark on a long journey through a lost and beautiful Italy.
After traveling the world alongside migrating birds (Winged Migration) and diving the oceans with whales and manta rays (Oceans), Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud return to more familiar ground: the lush green forests and megafauna that emerged across Europe following the last Ice Age.
Jan 27, 28 , 29 It took seven years for veteran documentarian Mehrdad Oskouei to get permission to make a film in a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquent women in Iran. The result is a thoughtful and complex portrait of young women at the extreme margins of Iranian society.
As usual, this year’s assortment of live-action short Oscar contenders is a celebration of intimate, personal storytelling. Every filmmaker leaves his or her fingerprints on the material.
Many Hollywood movies are like impersonal multi-national corporations; they have unimaginable budgets and nothing creative at stake. This year’s Animation nominees are small in scope, very personal, and meticulously made.
Five of the bravest international filmmakers working today tell thoughtful, compelling stories in this year’s documentary short film program.
Four thirtysomething female friends in the misty seaside city of Kobe navigate the unsteady currents of their work, domestic, and romantic lives. They speak solace in one another’s company, but a sudden revelation creates a rift, and rouses each woman to take stock.
The best short films have all of the breadth, scope and resonance of feature length films. On Sunday, Feb 19th, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater, we’ll be showing the best of the best — the 10 Academy Award nomines for Best Short Film. Five of the films are animated and five feature live actors.
Sunday, Feb 26th at 3pm at the IU Fine Arts Theater Bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins […]
Before Bob Dylan, there was Pablo Neruda, the beloved, Nobel-prize winning poet from Chile. But Dylan has never been the subject of a manhunt; Neruda however, was.
This 2017 Academy Award nominee tells the story of refugees and their flight to new lands. “Storytelling that allows us to consider what documentary can do. It is urgent, imaginative and necessary filmmaking.”
-Meryl Streep
March 17, 18, 24, 25, 26 ♦ Scroll down for times and locations Individual Tickets: $5 ♦ Semester Passes $30 Academy Award Nominee BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM On the tiny Pacific island of Tanna in the Vanuatu archipelago, the younger members of two native tribes are growing restless at the restrictions of their cultural traditions. […]
Academy Award nominee Isabelle Huppert stars as Nathalie, a Parisian philosophy teacher with a seemingly settled existence, juggling a rich life of the mind with the day-to-day demands of career and family. But when her husband announces that he is leaving her, the pillars of Nathalie’s life begin to crumble. For the first time in […]